Ectoparasites (parasites that live outside the body) can be damaging to swine, causing unthriftiness and slow weight gains. These pests feed and reproduce on the host animal at the animal’s expense. This is extremely hard on young, actively growing...
Farmscape for August 23, 2021
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A team of researchers working with the Swine Health Information Center has determined a novel rotavirus that affected foals in Kentucky this spring poses no risk to swine production. Research from...
Farmscape for July 26, 2021
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The Swine Health Information Center has launched an investigation following the identification of a new virus in the genus of Morbillivirus. In 2020, while investigating reports of fetal death, encephalitis and...
Farmscape for July 12, 2021
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Next week swine producers will have an opportunity to learn more about a highly pathogenic and transmissible strain of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome. On July 20 SHIC and the American...
Tetracore announced today the licensing of their VetAlert Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) RNA Diagnostic Test Kit by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB).
It is one of the first licensed FMD diagnostic...
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Manage a Well-Maintained Hog Facility
Facilities are the single biggest investment on a hog farm and you want to keep them running effectively and efficiently for a long time.
This is especially true if...
Innovative solar-powered feed bin sensor makes real-time monitoring easy with no internet needed.
Hitting the side of a feed bin with a mallet, using load scales or installing vibration sensors to guestimate feed levels is a thing of the past....
One of the most effective biosecurity measures producers can use to protect their hog operation starts with protecting the feed their hogs eat. It has been proven contaminated feed can be one of the vectors through which pathogens and...
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The Feed Outlook tables were reposted on April 16, 2020 to correct an error in the 2019/20 December-January feed and residual and ending stocks. No other components of the supply and...
by Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Genetics
In my last commentary, I was questioning the CME and its disconnect to the cash hog market, and I would like to continue on that path.
A few years ago, actual basis contracts became popular...